The stage was nicely set for a big total till Faf du Plessis and Kevin Pietersen were batting but the dismissal of the latter and a mid-innings hiccups prevented Rising Pune Supergiants from posting a mammoth score. Du Plessis (67 off 53 balls) seemed to have waged a lone battle as he notched up his second consecutive fifty
to take Pune to 152/7 against Kings XI Punjab..